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Director: John Huston
Actors: Jos� Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier, Katherine Kath
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

39 reviews
Sales Rank: 14681

Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 119
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: MGMD1006503D
ISBN: 0792860764
UPC: 027616906892
EAN: 9780792860761
ASIN: B0001V6ZJ8

Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 1952
Release Date: June 15, 2004
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
It was one of the top 10 grossing films of 1952 and garnered seven Oscar nominations, but Moulin Rouge is neglected today. Not to be confused with the Baz Luhrmann-Nicole Kidman extravaganza, this is a color-soaked tale of Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer), based on a romanticized novel about the artist's life. Director John Huston explores the discrepancy between the creation of exquisite art and the messy business of living--especially messy for the growth-stunted, alcoholic painter, whose affairs revolve around prostitutes. The soap-opera aspects of the storyline limit the picture (as does the distracting fact of Ferrer walking on his knees), but it has some gorgeous things in it. The experiments in color photography (which horrified the Technicolor people) are spectacularly successful, and the movie won Oscars for set decoration and costumes. George Auric's haunting melody became a standard, so lovely even the dubbed performance of Zsa Zsa Gabor couldn't hurt it. --Robert Horton

Product Description
Fictional account of french artist henri de toulouse-lautrec. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 06/05/2007 Starring: Jose Ferrer Suzanne Flon Run time: 119 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John Huston

Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

A great classic November 21, 2008
One of the great films of one of the most famous artists of all time. Jose Ferrer is fabulous, the scenery is fabulous, the story is perfectly done. A true color classic.

5 out of 5 stars

The Other "Moulin Rouge" October 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

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Mention MOULIN ROUGE and most folks will think of Nicole Kidman and the ground-breaking 2001 musical in which she sang and danced to perfection.

However, back in 1952, there was another (non-musical) MOULIN ROUGE, and most people who remember this John Huston-directed classic consider it to be one of the greatest films of that decade.

It also produced a title song that has become a standard.

Huston's film received seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. It won for Art Direction and Costuming, but lost the top honor, as did HIGH NOON and THE QUIET MAN, to Cecil B. DeMille's THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. [Go figure!]

Visually stunning, MOULIN ROUGE stars Oscar-nominated Jose Ferrer as both famed artist Toulouse-Lautrec and his father.

A dwarf, Lautrec believes that he is too ugly to ever attract a woman, thus he devotes his life to painting and cognac.

A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-off-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, he meets and falls in love with a streetwalker (Colette Marchand), who breaks his heart and, later, he is unable to recognize true affection from another woman (Suzanne Flon).

Zsa Zsa Gabor co-stars as a singer at the nightclub who also has romantic problems. Future Hammer horror icons Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee have brief roles.

MGM/UA Home Entertainment has done a commendable job in transferring this color-rich film onto DVD.

Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

5 out of 5 stars

Art; Life; the Gutter & the Chateau October 19, 2008
Among the most interesting aspects of this powerful story were the strong, if not subtle, contrasts. To get the niggles out of the way: many features jarred, to an extent: the dubbed singing, the easily detectable fake chin and nose, the completely unconvincing abbreviated legs. However, they didn't actually seem to matter. The story was rather simplistic, but that didn't seem to matter either. Somehow there was a truth to it, which completely escaped the Luhrmann production. Not that that was about Toulouse-Lautrec, anyway. There was an analysis of a spectrum of human reactions to the circumstances into which people happen to be born: as aristocrats who may not work but nevertheless have certain standards of conduct, as cripples who need to compensate, as prudent working women who make a go of it, as stars who can't cope, as alley-cats who sell themselves for their pimps. The performances were all perfectly good, within the constraints of the narrative. It seemed to be sentimental, but it actually wasn't. The dancing was terrific. The atmosphere might have been 50s Hollywood, but it nonetheless felt quite French. Curious final effect: the whole was better than the parts, and it's a definitely a film worth watching more than once.

4 out of 5 stars

Tulouse LaTrec June 29, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

It's a 50's movie and I get a kick out of the special effects and some of the make up jobs. However, Jose Frerre did the entire movie on his knees to appear small in stature the same as Tulouse so I give him kudos for suffering through all that. Miss Gabor even looked good way back then!

5 out of 5 stars

Vivid Portrait of An Artist March 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Even in an age when the studios placed restrictions on what would appear on screen director John Huston was a highly individual and uncomprosing auteur. Despite the film's ostensible setting in the gaiety of Paris' Moulin Rouge the film is front-and-center a portrait of a brooding cognac besotted artist Henri de Latrouse-Lautrec(Jose Ferrer). Born of French nobility, Latrouse-Lautrec was left crippled and deformed at an early age by a freak household accident. Embittered, Latrouse-Lautrec felt incapable or unworthy of being loved by a woman. Instead, he channels his passion into his painting with the Paris streets and primarily the notorious Moulin Rouge being his main subject matters. And what a thing of beauty his visions are! Despite salving his pain in alcohol Latrouse-Lautrec was still able to channel his passion into his indelible works of art. Including "Lust for Life", "Moulin Rouge" is probably the best biography of a painter I've ever seen on screen. Jose Ferrer, a lead actor who had the misfortune of being typecast in supporting roles for most of his career, is nothing less than wondrous as Latrouse-Lautrec. He embodies all the conflicts and contradictions of the man with few histrionics. "Moulin Rouge" is a work for the ages.

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